Anything by Kenny effing G.

NatRad has a crack at it with Huawei Guy and CFR guy:

http://podcast.radionz.co.nz/ntn/ntn-20120328-0908-huawei_security_fears-048.mp3

The Council for Foreign Relations has intimate relations with the CIA soft power department.

The larger argument is looked at by Cory Doctorow with his Future of General Computing talk.

Nokia Siemens helped the Iranian government clamp down on the Green Revolution with Deep Packet Inspections of the network. To take it to the paranoia limit, it really comes down on who you want to be snooped on by; CIA and the Patriot Act or China's Politburo. They're both welcome to read all the state secrets from the Taihape District Council.

Or try to suck up to the Nats ahead of cuts and restructuring within the police.

why on Earth can't I take notes while sitting in the back of a court? Or while seated in the public gallery of the House of Representatives? Why should these things be limited to any class of persons at the whim of a Judge or the Speaker? It is difficult to believe these limits can be demonstrably justified in a free and democratic society.

I endorse these sentiments. There are occasions I have desperately wanted to record court proceedings (Dakta Green's trial in the past, Billy McKee's impending trial). However, I am forbidden from doing so for no good reason.

While I have no love of regulated speech as this thread intends, as a blogger I would appreciate the courtesy of bearing witness, even if it is in the third person.

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